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In every area of practice, WilmerHale brings the insight, dedication to excellence, and commitment to client service needed for our clients to achieve their business objectives. Our five-department structure and team approach to service enable us to provide the highest level of responsiveness and access to lawyers with the most appropriate experience.

Sophisticated, multifaceted legal advice for every stage of the investment management life cycle.

Today’s alternative investment managers face an increasingly complex constellation of legal, financial, tax and regulatory challenges as they raise and deploy capital. Drawing on a multidisciplinary lineup of experienced lawyers—including more than 100 who have served in senior government roles—we deliver incisive legal advice targeted to each stage of the investment management life cycle. We advise fund clients on all aspects of the formation and structuring of investment vehicles and their day-to-day operation; assist them in the execution of complex investment strategies and financing transactions across jurisdictions; and provide them with unmatched trading regulation and compliance advice. When enforcement actions, investigations and litigation matters arise, our clients rely on the sophistication and experience of our market-leading securities litigation and enforcement practice. Our expertise across the full range of asset management issues enables us to anticipate obstacles and manage regulatory risk, freeing our clients to focus on meeting their funds’ objectives.

Experience

WilmerHale’s alternative investment practice has six decades of experience serving alternative asset managers, and has been at the forefront of many of the major developments that have shaped the industry during that period. Our clients range from some of the largest global hedge fund managers to emerging managers with the potential for growth. Our client list includes approximately half of the 25 largest hedge funds as ranked by Hedge Fund Alert. We have extensive experience representing asset management firms, commodity pools, venture capital firms, private equity firms, real estate firms, broker-dealers, sovereign wealth funds and fund sponsors associated with large, multi-line financial services firms.

We offer unparalleled advice across the full range of substantive legal issues that can arise throughout the investment management life cycle:

Distressed Debt and Restructuring

We have advised many funds in connection with making, enforcing and restructuring distressed investments and negotiating with distressed counterparties. Our guidance has spanned a range of issues, including:

The full range of proceedings initiated by the SEC, CFTC, DOJ, FINRA, NFA, the Financial Conduct Authority of the UK, Congress, state securities regulators and attorneys general, state insurance regulators, and other governmental agencies, as well as exchanges and other self-regulatory organizations

In events that will be of interest to many private investment fund managers and sponsors, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled an action against a consultant for acting as an unregistered broker in connection with soliciting sales of private investment funds. The SEC entered similar settlements with the fund manager and one of its principals.

WilmerHale is pleased to announce the arrival of Drew G.L. Chapman, who joins the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Securities Department and Investment Management Group and head of the Alternative Investment practice. Chapman expands the firm’s footprint with financial services clients through his in-depth experience in private fund formation and transactional work.

In every area of practice, WilmerHale brings the insight, dedication to excellence, and commitment to client service needed for our clients to achieve their business objectives. Our five-department structure and team approach to service enable us to provide the highest level of responsiveness and access to lawyers with the most appropriate experience.